Leonard Simms

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Leonard Simms

Portrayed by Ron Bottitta

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Appeared in

"Numbers"
"Dave"

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Name

Leonard Simms

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Status

Alive

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Origin

Santa Rosa Mental Health Institute

Profession

Former Navy

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Connection

A patient with Hurley and Libby.

Season(s)

S1 - S2 - S3 - MP - S4

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Leonard Simms was a U.S. naval officer stationed in the South Pacific before and/or during 1988. With his friend and fellow officer Sam Toomey, Leonard monitored longwave radio transmission at a government listening post.

In 1988, the station picked up a transmission consisting of the numbers 4 8 15 16 23 42 repeating on a loop. (Danielle Rousseau and her science team also caught the transmission around that same time.) The Numbers stayed with Leonard and Sam. After Toomey used the numbers in a game of chance, a plague of bad luck seemed to befall those around him. Leonard and Sam believed the Numbers to be cursed, driving Sam to suicide, and Leonard to insanity.

At an unknown time, Leonard was admitted to Santa Rosa Mental Health Institute. He spent all of his time playing the game Connect Four with himself, while endlessly repeating the numbers.

Trivia

Along with Leonard, Hurley and Libby appeared to have been patients at Santa Rosa at the same time.
Leonard only once stopped repeating the numbers (to the extent of our knowledge) when Hurley told him about the lottery prize. Leonard seemed to sober up, and he frantically warned Hurley of the dangers the numbers carried.
Leonard greatly resembles a bespectacled, balding patient in the mental institution in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Unanswered questions

When Hurley told Leonard that he had used the numbers to win the lottery what did Leonard mean by "You've opened the box"?
Where was he during the events of The Beginning of the End?